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by Danny Goldberg
ISBN: 1592404839
Binding/Media: Paperback - 320 pages
Condition: Used: Like New
Comments: Sold with pride. Previously UNREAD copy in new condition, with publisher's mark on the bottom.
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The Last Of A Dying Breed
Rating  (4)
Date: 2010-03-22
Bumping Into Geniuses gives a nice insight into the career path of one of the great music men of our time. The interesting thing about Goldberg is that, unlike many of his fellow music execs, Danny is a true lover of music and musicians. His passion for the artistry of the people with whom he has worked, and for the individuals themselves, is apparent throughout the book. Even the title (taken from an Ahmet Ertugen quote) shows Goldberg's reverence for the musical titans whose paths he was fortunate enough to cross. Whether it be the complex band dynamics of Led Zeppelin, the intuitive artistry of Stevie Nicks, the sense of loss for Warren Zevon or the regret over not having done more to help Kurt Cobain, Goldberg addresses these issues candidly and with a humility that books like Walter Yetnikoff's Howling At The Moon lack. Rather than a shot at shameless self-promotion, Goldberg positions himself as a wide-eyed rube, whose love of music was enough to pinball him throughout the industry, his score growing ever higher.
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bumping into geniuses
Rating (4)
Date: 2010-02-10
A great perspective of the rock music business in our generation. Danny Goldberg presents a solid foundation of the muscal landscape that clearly details the triumphs and tragedys of corporate execs and musicians. His personal memoirs of Kurt Cobain and Warren Zevon are written with a heartwarming tone of appreciation for the artists and the importance of their musical contrbutions.
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Worthwhile Insight
Rating (4)
Date: 2009-10-19
An interesting view of the music business from the inside. Goldberg bounced from being a rock writer and critic to becoming a producer and executive. His main aim seems to have always been to produce and encourage real good original music -- while maintaining his integrity and being true to the artists, the audience and himself.
The book could have used some rigorous editing in parts (in my humble opinion) but it is definitely worth the time to read. If just to witness his honest battle to maintain his integrity while facing the facts of the way the music business really works.
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Hold on tight!
Rating  (5)
Date: 2009-10-16
If you love music (as the author notes - it's the soundtrack to your life), you will enjoy this book. it helps if you like rock music, but even if you only have a passing familiarity with the world of rock n roll, especially the part in the 1970's, you will probably still like this book. It's not meant to spill any secrets (that i can tell) or dirty laundry on some famous dude, i think it's more of a story of how if you really have a passion for something, with a bit of luck and an open mind, you can find yourself in some interesting places. It's the story of Danny Goldberg, a guy who turns out to be really interesting and not necessarily because of who he knows, but because of his love of music and artists.
A few artists are discussed in greater detail than others. Goldberg spent some interesting times with Led Zep, Stevie Nicks, Nirvana, and Warren Zevon. I really liked the Nirvana stories, because Goldberg was one of a very few people who really had any access to Kurt Cobain during Nirvana's most popular times. You will learn that Cobain was extremely interested in making his music/band as popular as possible, as long as it was on his own terms. This is not what most people think about Cobain, but he really paid attention to how his records sold, videos played, and how to make his music available to the masses (agreeing to alter a record cover so that Wal-Mart would sell it, a place that may be the only place for some kids to be able to buy music).
Goldberg has given me the motivation to continue with my alchemy experiments. you've got to stick with your passions! Gold into Goldfish!
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Fascinating
Rating (5)
Date: 2009-09-27
I bought this book for my daughter who worked for the author as an intern eight years ago. She says I must read it...it's a fascinating look at the business, well written...last week shesaid "I can't wait to get home to read Bumping into Geniuses...
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by Elliot Jaspin
ISBN: 0465036376
Binding/Media: Paperback - 352 pages
Condition: Used: Like New
Comments: Sold with pride. New, unread copy. Publisher's overstock copy with a publisher's mark.
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journalistic, and a bit self-indulgent
Rating  (3)
Date: 2010-02-21
1 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
It's important for people to know both that there were serious efforts to drive Blacks from their homes during Reconstruction and the decades that followed it, and that these largely successful efforts have cast a long shadow: decades later, the number of Blacks in the towns that exiled their ancestors is very, very low.
That said, this book's narrative is something less than compelling, and its style excessively (and distractingly) journalistic.
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Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America
Rating (5)
Date: 2010-01-18
1 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
I take issue with Kevin Boyle's criticism in the Washington Post of Buried in the Bitter Waters. First of all, Boyle claims that Elliot "Jaspin's choice of case studies leaves the wrong impression of American ethnic cleansing"--i.e., an impression that racial cleansings were primarily rural, Southern, and antiblack. But Boyle is wrong. As Jaspin states in his introduction, the cleansings he discusses in the rest of the book are the worst of the worst: Cleansings that wiped out the black populations of entire counties that remain lily-white to this day. These most extreme of cleansings were indeed, the evidence shows, primarily rural, Southern, and antiblack.
Boyle also says that, "[b]ecause the purges tended to follow a predictable pattern, [Jaspin's] stories start to feel depressingly familiar, then frustratingly repetitious." This is other than the truth. While the cleansings Jaspin recounts certainly have some things in common, they are hardly identical, and I think one would have to be quite a jaded character to become comfortable or bored reading about them. Not to mention, Jaspin is an excellent storyteller who knows how to keep a reader engaged with even the most brutal material.
Last, Boyle blasts Jaspin for supposedly "compound[ing] the problem by devoting most of his conclusion to detailing a nasty fight he had with his editors at Cox newspapers in 2005, when he presented them with the multi-part series upon which the book is based," thereby allegedly "deaden[ing] what should have been the book's dramatic climax." For one thing, the book is not based on the series; it was a separate project developed contemporaneously with that series. For another, Jaspin's account of how the powers at Cox censored and soft-pedaled his work in contravention of editorial consensus and journalistic ethics is not only part and parcel of his larger story of why and how the history of racial cleansings in America has been hidden, but the "dramatic"--and dismaying--"climax" thereto.
In short, don't let Boyle's off-the-ball carping stop you from picking up Jaspin's book. (That's not to say that Boyle's review doesn't have value, as it does raise issues outside of Jaspin's stated purview, and recommend another volume on racial cleansings.) Buried in the Bitter Waters is a thoroughly researched, expertly organized, lucidly written, and deeply insightful read. It should haunt you.
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Good research with faulty premise
Rating (3)
Date: 2010-01-06
3 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
By this I do not mean that racial cleansing did not occur, but that author Jaspin's lack of historical grounding before embarking on his demographic analysis undercut his project. The _essential_ reason these border state areas had (and have) low black populations is that slavery was not very profitable in these zones; hence, relatively few slave-owners and slaves. Research into settlement patterns from antebellum times would have demonstrated this quite plainly. The author approached the present day visual population demographics from the wrong end of the telescope.
That said, the pattern of racial cleansing was real, and especially so in the areas he describes, precisely because blacks were small in number and vulnerable to violence. One area he does not mention is north Texas, where a small black population dating from the antebellum era on Red River was systematically driven out as white farm tenants grew in number. The last act in this process was the riot and burn-out of the black community in Sherman in 1930.
The book is rich in anecdotal description of particular places and incidents, and worth reading as a peek into a dark, cobwebbed corner of American social life. But the conclusions drawn are only partially supported by the author's thesis.
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about time
Rating (4)
Date: 2009-07-31
Alot of americans don't now the true history of race in this country.
This shreds a little light on the subject. Mr. Jaspin even had to
fight to get his stories published in this millineum.
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Are we our ancestors' keepers?
Rating (3)
Date: 2009-02-21
2 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
Oppression of the black population after Reconstruction was pervasive. Lynching, progroms and localised ethnic cleansing were instruments of mobs, preceding or accompanying Jim Crow. Elliot Jaspin focuses on localised instances of ethnic cleasing. The evidence is horrifying, though in the end somewhat repetitive and even numbing. As document the book is excellent.
After 100 years - what should the communities where these horrors took place do of all this? That racism would still exist there is not surprising - separation breeds contempt. In what sense should a community acknowledge its past, even more, atone for it? In Asia people who die outside the family become 'hungry ghosts'. Offers of incense and paper money acknowledge them. Going beyond such symbolic gestures creates problems. Is there collective guilt? For what crimes? How far back? It all gets so arbitrary and whimsically emotional.
After 100 years - what should an individual do of all this?
In the final chapter Jaspin tells the tale of Debbie, whose ancestors were at the heart of one such cleansing. For Debbie acknowledging her family's past seems to have been a overwhelmingly wrenching experience. Why? She was not even party to the conspiracy of silence - she was never told.
Jaspin raises many such ethical issues, but never addresses them critically. He is so taken in by his discovery that he forgets that time has passed. We decry vendettas that go down the ages - contracts with the dead, which define their childrens' life. Guilt is no less a dreadful master than revenge. Is guilt for a distant past to be our destiny?
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by Nick Lush (Illustrator: Pauline Pears)
ISBN: 087106796X
Binding/Media: Paperback - 484 pages
Condition: Used: Very Good
Comments: Sold with pride. No writing, no highlighting. Copy in very good condition with minimal reading wear.
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by Timothy R. Pauketat
ISBN: 0670020907
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 208 pages
Condition: New
Comments: Sold with pride. Brand new copy with publisher mark on the bottom.
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Some interesting pre-history
Rating (3)
Date: 2010-06-03
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
I had high hopes for this book. I heard about Cahokia from a couple different sources and was intrigued by the idea of this large pre-history society in America that rivaled the Aztecs and Mayans. And it remains true that this society was large and had a relatively high degree of complexity. However, the book probes what we know about Cahokia, and we know quite little.
I find the book grasping for a larger significance but falling short. I see very little lasting legacy of Cahokia. It doesn't seem that they contributed anything lasting to subsequent societies. I do still find it interesting that they comprised such an empire which essentially disintegrated and was virtually unknown for many years after white settlement. What caused them to fall apart? The book addresses this question, but comes off more pedantic than inquisitive.
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America's Ancient Lost City
Rating (4)
Date: 2010-05-31
0 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
It's amazing how few people know much of anything about the ancient history of North America. Even less about the mound builders or the lost city of Cahokia. Most still think the natives were barbarians barely out of the caves. Finally, after years of destruction, Cahokia is getting the studies and preservation it deserves. Ancient sites are still subject to destruction, but now more people see the folly in this. Cahokia has many mysteries, but as the book describes, the mesoamerican influence in this ancient city seems likely. We may never know all of this lost city's secrets, but this book is a great step in informing the public. Only downside is its lack of illustrations. See also Mound Builders, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus and Advanced Civilizations of Prehistoric America: The Lost Kingdoms of the Adena, Hopewell, Mississippians, and Anasazi.
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Civilization of barbarism
Rating (3)
Date: 2010-02-26
2 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
Writing a book on Cahokia reminds me of Samuel Johnson's famous quip about a dog walking on its hind legs. The observer is not surprised that the dog doesn't walk on his hind legs very well; he's surprised that the dog can walk on his hind legs at all. Because Cahokia flourished c. 1050-1200, there are, of course, no written records; and as Pauketat admits, there are not even any oral history references in the eastern Woodland tradition.
Almost all of Pauketat's evidence is archaeological, and that evidence is subject to remarkably varied interpretation. Perhaps Pauketat's greatest service is in lucidly introducing the reader to both the archaeologists who opened the site to twentieth-century investigation and to the trends of the discipline that molded interpretation of the site. Unfortunately, a book focused on archaeology requires at least a modicum of illustrations, which Viking has declined to provide.
Our only certainty about Cahokia is that its inhabitants practiced human sacrifice--mostly of young women--on a grand scale. Alfred Crosby in Ecological Imperialism (1986) has called this practice evidence of a "hierarchical class structure...a key factor in the origins of civilization everywhere." (210) Perhaps. But we should remember that during this period, cities with fewer people completed major religious structures in Parma, Pisa, York, Novgorod, Chartes, Lisbon, Oxford, and Modena. And none were consecrated with the ritual slaughter of young women.
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Still Waiting
Rating (3)
Date: 2010-01-28
2 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
Pauketet's earlier Cahokia book in the "Digging for the Past" provides a better view of this very important archeological site than this more popularly focused volume. This Penguin Library issue contains far too much speculation for a serious reader and Pauketet does not sustain a narrative well enough to interest most casual readers. There is a good story to be told here but we will have to wait a little longer to read it.
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Cahokia
Rating (5)
Date: 2009-11-18
0 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
Excellent book bringing some new information about this important place in the past of the Midwest
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by Linda Kerrigan Salvucci Sterling Stuckey
ISBN: 003052458X
Binding/Media: Hardcover
Condition: Used: Like New
Comments: Sold with pride and shipped with confirmation for US addresses. Gently read copy in like new condition.
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by Diane Whiteside
ISBN: 042522998X
Binding/Media: Paperback - 304 pages
Condition: Used: Like New
Comments: Sold with pride. Unread copy. Publisher's overstock, with publisher's mark on the bottom.
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Difficult to get into
Rating (3)
Date: 2010-01-17
2 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
Danae Livingstone is a successful dancer, but that is not her only passion, she is a popular fanfic author of erotic stories revolving around the fantasy world of Torhtremer, most especially the warrior, Alekhisy. Only once a year do her worlds merge, at GriffinCon, a huge sci-fi convention. GriffinCon is much more exciting this year, as she realizes that what most take as pure fantasy is actually becoming reality for her.
Alekhsiy has come to Earth to save his world from the evil Azherbhai, who is determined to destroy Torhtremer. Landing in the midst of GriffinCon is a convenient cover for his appearance. Meeting Danae is an added bonus, but can she help save his world from the sinister Azherbhai? Together they will fight to save their worlds with magic, steel, and an ingeniousness writers creativity.
CAPTIVE DESIRES is succulent tale full of action, adventure, fantasy and passion. The chemistry between Alekhsiy and Danae sears the pages. Unfortunately I had a difficult time getting into this book from the start. I was put off with Danae's quick acceptance of Alekhsiy being her warrior from Torhtremer. I felt that it would have added some depth and believability to the story if he had had to work a bit to prove who he was and why he was now in her world, but her practically falling on her knees to worship him immediately just didn't work for me. I was also put off with how easily she fell into bed with him. Yes, I know that this is an erotic romance, and I enjoy many erotic romances, but the rush to bed didn't click for me. I also enjoy fantasy, but with that, I still need plausible situations that can pull me into the world. There was just to much silliness that I found hard to process and enjoy.
Reviewed for: Night Owl Romance
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exciting romantic suspense fantasy
Rating (4)
Date: 2009-11-07
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
Danae Livingston writes fictional accounts of her warrior hero Alekhsiy in a fantasy realm filled with her desires. However, although she has wet dreams about her hunk, she knows he does not exist except in her libido.
She soon revises her opinion of what reality is when Alekhsiy arrives on Earth needing her help to save his world from evil. He is taken aback to see the woman who haunts his nocturnal desires in the flesh as is she. However, at a fandom fantasy festival, a fanatic demands she writes of the destruction of Alekhsiy's realm or else face his wrath.
This is a very exciting romantic suspense fantasy with the premise of a writer seemingly having the power of God; although the premise has been used before and Alekhsiy's realm never comes to life. Still, the story line is fun to follow as a fanatic demands death to Alekhsiy's world or death to the "creator", which leads to all types of metaphysical questions. Well written and enlightening, Captive Desires is an engaging heated thriller.
Harriet Klausner
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Loved it!
Rating (5)
Date: 2009-11-04
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
Captive Desires is related to Diane Whiteside's fantastic story Bound by the Dragon which was in the Anthology Captive Dreams with Angela Knight.
In Captive Desires, Danae Livingston is a famous dancer. She's also a fan of the Torhtremer saga books and has been writing fanfic about one character in particluar, Torhtremer General Alekhsiy Alexandrovich and the High Kings half-brother.
Danae is off to meet her friends at GriffinCon, a science fiction convention that is going to have a special preview of the upcoming Torhtremer movie.
Alekhsiy is on a mission. He has to find out who's going to be the next Dark Warrior, and the sorcerer who will bring the Imperial Terrapin back to plague his land.
He's been watching Danae and little does she know but her stories have saved him numerous times. There's a powerful attraction between them and together they have to stop the Dark Warrior and save Torhtremer.
Captive Desires is a non-stop erotic adventure and you won't want to put it down until it's over. Great story!
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by Michael Lombardo, Robert Eichinger
ISBN: 0965571211
Binding/Media: Paperback - 767 pages
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: Sold with pride and shipped with confirmation for US addresses. Gently read copy in like new condition, but has the first owner's name written on the first page.
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The career architect development
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-03-01
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
The CAREER ARCHITECT Development Planner is a Leadership Architect package book which is widely used and referred by corporate Leaders, high potential managers, and executive recruiters world wide. Loaded with over 100 indispensable competencies which are simple to administer and its applications requires no training to grasp. The is a must-read for both accomplished and visionary or aspiring Leaders.
A FOCUS ON LONG-TERM DEVELOPMENT
Each chapter provides valuable development content with additional research-based learning sections that focus on long-term experiential development:
(1) Learning from more feedback (gives you best source of feedback for your specific need, such as boss, peer, spouse, etc.);
(2) Learning from development-in-place assignments(projects/activities you can take on in addition to or while remaining in your current job position);
(3) Learning from full-time jobs(the type that would teach you or provide the best opportunity to develop the competency you've identified); and
(4) Learning more from your plan
The 4TH EDITION of this book was created for deeper and more expert development initiatives. The content provides expertise and in-depth research to fully leverage the experiential nature of how development works.
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by Rita Mae Brown, Sneaky Pie Brown (Illustrator: Michael Gellatly)
ISBN: 073942470X
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 490 pages
Condition: Used: Like New
Comments: Sold with pride and shipped with confirmation for US addresses. No publisher mark, no shelf wear.
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Great Read
Rating (5)
Date: 2009-01-06
This is just a fun series. When looking for easy, enjoyable reading with lots of characters this is a good series to read.
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Catch as Cat Can/ DWP
Rating (3)
Date: 2007-04-06
For all lovers of Rita Mae Brown and Ms. Murphy this is one of the best.
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my favorite of the series
Rating (4)
Date: 2006-07-12
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book really has an interesting plot and moves along with it. It is much more a mystery than usual and I enjoyed it very much. Of course there are the usual antics of the animals - they are endearing. I almost always pick up one of these books when I've had it with the world and want something comfortable to slip into. This one's a particular pleasure.
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It's spring in Crozet.
Rating (4)
Date: 2005-10-11
It's finally spring in Crozet, Virginia, but the weather is as unsettled as some of the happenings in this little town. There appears to be a lot of deaths - one looked like natural causes, one looked like suicide and one was murder, but as Harry and her pals delve deeper into the mire, it appears that the deaths are all connected and they were all murder. This book moves along at a pretty swift pace, and we have lots of hijinks with the fabulous thres pets as well as more contact with our old friends in Crozet. This is a great cozy series, and because of that we get to become good friends with the good citizens of Crozet. But there's sure a lot of crime in this piece of Virginia!
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Catch As Catch Can
Rating (5)
Date: 2005-07-07
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Love Sneaky Pie and friend. Wish I could live in Crozet and be one of the group. Maybe better wish I could be one of the animals. They are funny, endearing and totally wonderful.
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by Sue Atkinson
ISBN: 1585426857
Binding/Media: Paperback - 208 pages
Condition: Used: Like New
Comments: Sold with pride. This is a previously unread copy pulled from our shelves. It may have minimal shelf wear.
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Like talking with a well-meaning friend, but not too helpful
Rating (3)
Date: 2010-05-01
The book seemed about 3 times longer than it needed to be. What I got from it was that a lot of what I feel is normal for people with depression and I'm not the only one with these feelings. That was comforting, but it doesn't really get into why and how a person gets there without doing these odd activities. The activities don't seem like they would be helpful unless you had a professional working with you on them. I'm a do-it-yourselfer and like to take on activities on my own, and I found these confusing.
I would say you can read the first chapter and see if this book is going to be helpful to you. I read the whole thing waiting for something to kick in and it didn't really happen to any notable degree. If you don't feel like you relate to her, you don't need to read the entire book. You'll know if it's going to work for you pretty quickly.
I'm now reading Undoing Depression and getting a lot more out of it. A lot of reviews for that book gave it lower ratings for being out-of-date, but my version is 2010 and I've already gotten so much out of the first 70 pages that I'm very encouraged that it will make a difference for me. The author speaks from the expertise of his PhD, and being a depression sufferer himself who lost his mother to suicide at 15.
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BEST DEPRESSION BOOK EVER
Rating (5)
Date: 2004-06-16
2 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book is incredible. Having had depression since I was six years old, I thought I would never be free of it. When I first read this book, I cried because I'd never before come across anyone who knew how it felt. It was like the author was inside my head.
The advice and practical solutions are fantastic and really work. Now I am able to catch my depression before I get suicidal, which is brilliant.
I keep it by my bed and read it whenever I am feeling I am slipping.
If you have depression you must get this book. It could save your life.
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its been a life line for me
Rating (5)
Date: 2003-04-27
0 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
over the last 2 years i've read almost everybook i could lay my hands on do to with depression, in the search to find a cure for me.by far the best one to date is called climbing out of depression by sue atkinson.
i carry it everywhere with me, and when i need help i can open it anywhere and read a chapter, its like she knows exactly what i'm going through its been a life line for me. i guess she should cause she has suffered with depression and came out the other side.
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like having a guardian angel guide you to happiness.....
Rating (4)
Date: 2003-01-19
12 out of 12 customers found this reveiw helpful
A brilliant, informative book that is divided into small chapters, charts and activities. It is very reader-friendly, and can be used as a reference book rather than a read-back-to-front novel....
Sue Atkinson isn't a psychotherapist or doctor, but a regular person like you or me, who has experienced depression first hand and has lived to tell the tale and offer practical advice to sufferers. I found the activities particularly helpful, because they encourage soul-searching and self-understanding. Sue Atkinson encourages us to tune into our feelings, rather than masking them. She believes that hardships, both situational and emotional, should be brought to the fore and dealt with. She does not write in a condescending tone; and she is a highly literate author, especially considering this is her debut book.
My only problem with this book is the abundant references to Christianity, as the author of this book is a devout Christian. She means well, by telling us that religion was her savior and ray of light in the pit of darkness.....but I would find that most discouraging if I was Atheist or Agnostic. She preaches, ever-so-subtley, that Jesus saved her soul, and this comes across as blind faith rather than an intellectual realization, and is most inconsistant with the other messages in the book.
If you can look past her religious references, you will be rewarded with a very practical guide to recovery from depression. It is delivered with understanding, empathy, and hope. I recommend this book for any and all sufferers of depression, guilt, anxiety, and phobia, as well as those seeking to be informed about such conditions.
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